34.5% ▼ -22.0%
Higher than 54% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 44.2%
- 2016: 33.2%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
3898, VIC · Postcode
Migration & Movement in 3898, VIC
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A sharp drop in new arrivals defines the movement patterns in postcode 3898 over the last decade. While 17% of residents had arrived from overseas recently in 2011, that figure fell to just 5.1% by 2021. The area has become much less mobile overall, with far fewer people moving house compared to the rest of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 34.5% of people moved house in the last five years, which is well below the 40% seen across Victoria. This represents a downward trend, as the share of people moving fell by 9.7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 5.1% of the population, a figure that is far below the Victorian average of 15.6%. This is a significant decline from 2011, when 17% of residents had arrived from abroad recently.
5.1% ▼ -70.1%
Lower than 69% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in 3898, VIC [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA3898/3898-vic/topic/mobility-location